Information about Contributors
- Information about Contributors
Paddy Bowman is Director of Local Learning: The National Network for Folk Arts in Education and the co-editor of the Journal of Folklore and Education. She was awarded the American Folklore Society’s Benjamin A. Botkin Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Public Folklore.
Jennifer Gipson is Assistant Professor of French at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She holds a PhD in French (2011) with a Designated Emphasis in Folklore from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on French in the United States, especially Louisiana, and on literature and folklore in nineteenth-century France, including the history of French folklore study. She is currently preparing a book manuscript provisionally entitled “Phantom Storytellers: A Literary History of Folklore in Nineteenth-Century France.”
Tom Mould is Professor of Folklore and Anthropology at Elon University and Director of the Honors Program. He is the author of two books—Choctaw Prophecy: A Legacy of the Future (2003) and Still, the Small Voice: Narrative, Personal Revelation, and the Mormon Folk Tradition (2011); the editor of one, Choctaw Tales (2004); and co-editor of two more, The Individual and Tradition (2011; with Ray Cashman and Pravina Shukla) and Latter-Day Lore: Mormon Folklore Studies (2013; with Eric A. Eliason). His research areas include oral narrative, sacred narrative, American Indian studies, Mormon studies, ethnography, performance studies, contemporary legend, and public assistance.
Anne Pryor is an emeritus folklorist for the Wisconsin Arts Board. She is a co-founder of Wisconsin Teachers of Local Culture and the Board Chair of Local Learning.
Gillian Richards-Greaves is an anthropologist and ethnomusicologist whose research examines the musical, cultural, linguistic, and ritual expressions of the African diaspora. She has conducted research on kweh-kweh, an African Guyanese pre-wedding ritual, and is currently examining Gullah (Geechee) culture and identity in South Carolina.
Jeff Todd Titon is a folklorist and ethnomusicologist who taught at Tufts University (1971–1986), then directed the ethnomusicology PhD program at Brown University (1986–2013). He is the author or editor of eight books, most recently the Oxford Handbook of Applied Ethnomusicology (2015; co-edited with Svanibor Pettan). Since 2005, he has concentrated his efforts on music, sound, and sustainability; this work in ecomusicology may be tracked on his research blog at http://sustainablemusic.blogspot.com. [End Page 502]
